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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: Re: The joy of octal
Date: 16 Nov 2024 05:24:50 GMT
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On Fri, 15 Nov 2024 23:31:26 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

>    Again, not entirely sure where the end of octal was. Many of the PDPs
>    used octal, and I *think* a few PIC chips. 8/16/32 kinda took over
>    kinda early on however.

chmod 4755

I don't know if I'd call it octal but if you were writing an assembler for 
quite a few microcontrollers the opcodes would have a pattern where source 
ans destination registers were 0 - 7,